Word: alcoholized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...states, western New York and Pennsylvania (the cars will rush oil to New England); 2) WPB permission to build 300 tank trailer trucks, each of 4,000-gallon capacity; 3) Early assignment to oil service of some of the 26,000 cars now used to haul vegetable oils, chemicals, alcohol and wine...
...with green soap, then soak his skin the evening before the operation with a poultice of the soap. Finally, in the middle of the night, when he might have rested for the ordeal, he was "entertained" by being scrubbed, and the site of the operation was bathed in alcohol and dressed with a wet, sticky poultice to be kept on until the operation. Internal cleanliness was achieved by purging and preoperative starvation-which had the unfortunate effect of producing painful amounts of gas in the intestinal tract...
Nerve grafts from cadavers can be preserved for long periods, Dr. de Rezende found, in either liquid petrolatum or alcohol. The grafted nerve tissue need not be "alive" when transplanted. Reason: "The function of the nerve transplant is to a large extent merely mechanical. The graft presents thousands of microscopic channels which will help the down-growth of the neurofibrils...
Butadiene Polymers. The most useful of these units is butadiene, a liquid closely related to butane, hence easily made from natural gas, petroleum refinery vapors or (less easily) from alcohol. Buna, butyl, Ameripol and Perbunan are all based on butadiene...
...young officers became national heroes. The defense counsel presented 111,000 letters appealing for clemency. "Nine young men of Niigata chopped off nine little fingers in evidence of sincerity and sent them to the War Minister pickled in a jar of alcohol." With the fingers came an appeal for the murderers: "They broke the law but their motives were pure." Schoolboys wrote letters in blood. A German sausage maker contributed ten yen ($3) toward a fund for a monument which would show Inukai shaking hands with his assassins...